Name: Carmilla
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Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN: 9781724914880

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm

Weight

0.10 kg.

ISBN13

9781724914880

Synopsis "Carmilla"

The protagonist, Laura, tells how his life goes from common to bewildering and frightening when Carmilla, a beautiful young woman who happens to be a vampire appears. When passing Carmilla history begins to show a rather romantic behavior towards the other girl. Laura is a young man who lives with his father and a few servants in an ancient castle in the far reaches of Styria (Austria). Often, recalls that when she was a child and was asleep in the arms of a young and woke to feel two needles in his neck. His life takes a turn when, in front of the castle where they live, the carriage of a lady has an accident, and her daughter, who was also in him, becomes unconscious, as the lady could not waste time and should continue to travel, she is Hollis received at the castle until her mother search again. Laura and she, Carmilla, befriend, despite the new lodger shows oddities in their behavior: he wakes up after noon and locks herself in her room no signs of being in it. bibliografia: It was an Irish writer of mystery stories and novels. His ghost stories represent one of the first examples of the horror genre in its modern form, in which, as in his story Schalken The Painter, there is always Triumphs The Virtue of no explanation Simple supernatural Phenomena is provided. Sheridan Le Fanu was born into a family of Huguenot ancestry of origin. His grandmother Alice Sheridan Le Fanu, and the son of this, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, second uncle J. Sheridan Le Fanu, playwrights Were anvil, and his niece, Rhoda Broughton, successful novelist. Law study at Trinity College Dublin, where he was appointed auditor of the Historical Society. Le Fanu but did not like the laws and passed to journalism. From that time until his death Public multitude of stories. From 1861 to 1869, I edit the Dublin University Magazine, which published many of his works in installments. It belonged to the staff of several newspapers, including Mentado Dublin and Dublin University Magazine and the Evening Mail, until his death, which occurred in the city of his birth, Dublin on February 7, 1873.

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer born on August 28, 1814 in Dublin, and who died on February 7, 1873 in the same city. He is best known for his mystery and horror stories. Coming from a family of Huguenot origin, his father was a pastor in various Protestant localities. Joseph studied Law at Trinity College, where he was appointed auditor of the University's History Society. He never practiced law, dedicating himself to journalism. In 1838, he began publishing stories in the Dublin University Magazine; and from 1940 he took control of several newspapers. In 1844, he married Susanna Bennett, with whom he had four children. Gradually, he became involved in politics due to his campaign against the British government's indifference to the Irish famine, but his personal life was complicated due to his wife's illness, who suffered from anxiety attacks and an advanced neurosis that apparently cost her life in 1858. Le Fanu stopped writing, tormented by the death of his wife, and did not do so again until the death of his mother in 1861, supported by his cousin, Lady Gifford, with whom he maintained correspondence until her death. Upon becoming the owner of the Dublin University Magazine, he took the opportunity to publish his novels in serial form in this magazine. Although due to the demands of editors and his readers he wrote stories and novels following the British fashions of the time, in his last stories he returned to Irish folklore as a source of inspiration.

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